The Fraud A Novel
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Zadie Smith
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- Hardcover
- 9780525558965
- 05 september 2023
- 464 pagina's
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith (1975) is een van de grootste en invloedrijkste schrijvers van haar generatie. Ze publiceerde de veelvuldig bekroonde romans Witte tanden, De handtekeningenman, Over schoonheid, NW, De ambassade van Cambodja en de essaybundel Ik heb mij bedacht. Ze schrijft regelmatig voor The New Yorker en The New York Review of Books. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Zadie Smith, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Zadie Smith.
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From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their storyand who gets to be believed
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeperand cousin by marriageof a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.
Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.
The Tichborne Trialwherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .
Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of other people.
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeperand cousin by marriageof a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.
Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.
The Tichborne Trialwherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .
Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of other people.
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